Abstract
We are fortunate to know so much as we do about the early years of Shakespeare. Of other Elizabethan dramatists we do not know anything like so much — with the possible exception of Marlowe ; of some of them we know hardly a thing. Take the case of Ben Jonson, the outstanding personality among them all, whose later years we come to know in more detail than any other’s.
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Rowse, A.L. (1963). Family: School: Church. In: William Shakespeare. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00315-0_3
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